Tea and Vitriol

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation today, the culmination of the biggest sex scandal to hit the state since the brief reign of one of his predecessors, Eliot Spitzer, some fourteen years ago. Curiously enough, Cuomo's intentional cover-up of the nursing home deaths during the first outbreak of the pandemic last year didn't seem to interest the progressive liberals who were once his main support and now demanded his ouster. They clearly didn't care about elderly people sentenced to an isolated death in nursing homes on Cuomo's orders, and then ordering those figures to be lowered, which says a lot about progressive Democrats. None of it good. According to Todd Halliday, newscaster for WHAM Radio in Rochester, New York the Percoco scandal couldn't  bring him down; folding the Moreland Commission couldn't bring him down; the SUNY Poly scandal couldn't bring him down. It was the claims of his sexually inappropriate behavior by several

  Flashback, 2020. New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo was at the zenith of his political career and became internationally famous over the way he handled the Coronavirus Pandemic in this state. He locked the state down, forbidding all but the most essential businesses and services from opening, also forbidding groups from congregating on street corners, churches and in private homes. He gave daily press conferences about the progression of the disease, for which he won an Emmy Award. He wrote a book about how he conquered the crisis, which netted him $5 million. He was also accused by upwards of a dozen women of sexually harassing or abusing them. Fast forward, 2021. It was revealed that Cuomo's staff had ghost written his book on a "voluntary" basis. He refused to answer reporters' questions at his press conferences regarding his conquest of the Coronavirus in New York State. His staff revealed that they had fudged the numbers of seniors who had died in nursing hom

Political sex scandals are nothing new, but the frequency of accusations being made against politicians lately are making them seem quite banal. The result has been that a good many people regard woman making these accusations as having axes to grind with the politician in question other than sex. And then there is the financial settlement angle. Most of the time it seems like she said, he said and the battle lines get drawn between loyal supporters of the politician in question and the radical, man-hating feminist wing of the women's movement backing the accusers and looking for blood. Rochester has generally been spared political sex scandals, which suggests that our politicians, usually, are fairly discrete in their extra-marital activities and their playmates have not been willing to expose them or themselves to public scrutiny. Unfortunately, that was not the case regarding Monroe County Legislator Ernest Flagler-Mitchell. In the Fall of 2020, Ernest was accused of sending LaK